Postdoctoral Position at Kansas State University from November 1997 to November 1998, as a Research Associate at the Physics Department

1- Experimental ellipsometry for the measurement of ultra-thin films of fluids on silicon substrates. Developped software for analysis of ellipsometric data. Preparation and cleaning of silicon surfaces and theoretical modeling of liquid crystals spreading. 2- Design of optical measurements and experiments for the measurement of line tension including fabrication of silane monolayers, and design of an interferometric microscope.

Postdoctoral position at the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications from July 2000 to July 2002

1- Theoretical Fluid Mechanics: simulation of the spreading of viscous liquids on plane substrates. Computations with boundary elements methods, finite differences and construccion of explicit solutions to the Stokes equations. 2- Experimental Fluid Mechanics: design and implementation of optical diagnostics based on interferometry, schlieren and shadowgraphy for the measurement on viscous flows. Experiments in spreadings and cusps formation in flows of small Reynolds number.

Visiting Assistant Professor at the Mathematics Department of the University of Minnesota from November 1998 to July 2000

1- Modelling of porous medium flows with 2D finite differences, numerical renormalization and ENO discretizations, and construction of exact and approximate 2D selfsimilar solutions for thin film flows of viscous liquids on plane surfaces. 2- In collaboration with the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, I did research on skeletonization of planar shapes, symmetry detection in digital images, image enhancement and processing of 3D data.

Fortran, C++, OPENMP, Basic, LabView and Mathematica. I have experience working with supercomputers at the Supercomputing Institute of the UMN. I programmed mainly codes for data processing, image enhancement and numerical simulations in fluid dynamics.